I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
— Patrick Kane
It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this... to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not living up to your complete potential - you're obviously going to get ticked off about that.
I like Joe Sakic. Coming out of Buffalo, I obviously like Alexander Mogliny, Pat LaFontaine. Hasek is up there. Miroslav Satan. Whoever seemed to be a good player at the time I'd watch. Jagr too. I tried to learn a lot from those guys.
If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
I'm probably the guy who keeps it loose around the room and tries to joke around with guys before the game, keeping things funny.
For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.
If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
People might not view me as competitive as I really am.
You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.
I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get away.
There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
I still love playing the game, and it's amazing we can do this as a so-called 'job,' and it's amazing we can come to the rink every day and play the game we love.
A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
